meaning of make

1. A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
2.
To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.
3.
To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.
4.
To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
5.
To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.
6.
To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
7.
To gain, as the result of ones efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.
8.
To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.
9.
To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.
10.
To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.
11.
To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.
12.
To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.
13.
To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.
14.
To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.
15.
To be engaged or concerned in.
16.
To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.
17.
To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make.
18.
To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.
19.
To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.
20.
To increase; to augment; to accrue.
21.
To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
22.
Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.
23.
Make tool> The Unix tool to automate the recompilation, linking etc. of programs, taking account of the interdependencies of modules and their modification times. Make reads instructions from a "makefile" which specifies a set of targets to be built, the files they depend on and the commands to execute in order to produce them. Most C systems come with a make. There is also one produce by GNU. ["Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs", A. I. Feldman, TR No 57, Bell Labs Apr 1977].


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